PDP Stakeholder Urges FG To Establish Agric Varsity In Rivers, Bayelsa

A prominent politician in Rivers State and stakeholder of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Opobo/Nkoro Ward 2, Hon. Emmanuel Karibi-Toby, has urged the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led Federal Government to, as a matter of urgency, establish Federal Universities of Agriculture in Rivers and Bayelsa States.
This, he said, will provide the much needed manpower and technologically – oriented skilled workers, who would be able to go into self-employed large scale farming that would provide both food and livestock in the country.
He said when established, it will create employment of youths and other Nigerians in the near future and subsequently other businesses will develop.
According to him, the establishment of the universities of Agriculture became imperative to enhance the provision of the envisaged agricultural technology institutions that had eluded these sister states for long as obtained in other states of the country.
The grassroot mobiliser and philanthropic leader further said that President Bola Tinubu should bear in mind that apart from Rivers and Bayelsa States, others are enjoying the presence of Federal Universities of Agriculture and wondered why the case of Rivers and Bayelsa States should be different.
Karibi-Toby, who questioned the absence of such universities in Rivers and Bayesla States urged President Tinubu to heed to “this clarion call” to establish the universities in the two states he tagged “catchment states”.
Meanwhile, Hon. Karibi-Toby also said the emergence of Sir Siminalayi Fubara as Governor and leader of Rivers State has brought to an end the era of god-fatherism in Rivers politics.
He lauded the development mantra of the Governor in the past one year within which multi- dimensional roads and other people-oriented projects were provided, and the welfare of Rivers workers and retirees ware genuinely being taken into consideration.
Describing the Governor as a “God-sent” leader with the wisdom, love, peaceful mature, empathy and interest of developing mankind, he assured of Rivers people’s unflinching loyalty and support to the administration.
For those who, he said, “toe the line of fomenting troubles in the state”, he cautioned them to desist from such act for the sake of posterity.

By: Bethel Toby